Daniel Bass (Florida International University)

Prof. Daniel Bass
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Florida International University
University Park Campus
Miami, FL  33199  USA

phone: 305-348-2247
fax:   305-348-3605
email: bassd@fiu.edu

Description of work:

keywords:

Sri Lanka, Up-Country Tamils, tea estates/plantations, 
Tamil Nadu, diaspora, ethnicity, identity, space & place, religion, 
globalization, media, labor, popular culture

Publications:

Oct 1997
Book review of "Charred Lullabies: ÊChapters in an Anthropography of
Violence" by E. Valentine Daniel, Nethra (Colombo) 1 (4): 82-89

Jul 2000
"Malaiyahattil Or Amerikka Maanavan" ("An American Student in the Hill
Country" - in Tamil), Malaikural (Hatton) 11: 1-2.

Dec 2000
Malaiyaha (Up-Country) Identity and Politics in the Twenty-first Century.
ICES Lecture/Discussion Series No. 2. ÊColombo: ÊInternational Centre for
Ethnic Studies.

Apr 2001
Landscapes of Malaiyaha Tamil Identity. ÊMarga Monograph Series on Ethnic
Reconciliation No. 8. ÊColombo: ÊMarga Institute.

April 2003
Review of Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure 
by Susantha Goonatilake, Comparative Studies in Society and History
45 (2): 423-424.

Aug 2004
A Place on the Plantations: Up-Country Tamil Ethnicity in Sri Lanka.
Ph.D. Dissertation. ÊDepartment of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

forthcoming
"Landscapes of Malaiyaha Tamil Identity" in The History of the Ethnic
Conflict in Sri Lanka: ÊRecollection, Reinterpretation, and 
Reconciliation, Michael Roberts and Devanesan Nesiah, eds. ÊColombo:
Marga Institute.